The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-08
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Twenty miles of snow sheds, cost
,.g 81, 500, 900, have been built recent
ly by a Canadian railway company.
1t is not good policy to say thing
before children that you would no
have repeated. 1t is the little thing
that teli.--Boston transcript.
Piedmont, Ca. comes forward witt
the claim Of having within its limits
a tree that drops snow from it,
branches at regular intervals.
The oldest bank building in thi'
country is situated in Albany, N. Y. i
was erected in 1903, and has been oc'
cupied by II concern evcr since
Albany Journal
Some persons have the habit of ex'
claiming, Don't talk to me.' They
should reflect that possibly the offender
would not, only he has got to talk OF
bust.-N. Y. Mail.
AT Port Jeryis, N. Y, recently the
railroad ticket agent was tloored by
the following query from a we'll
dressed man: Twill this train coming
now leave before the n going next?'
There are about 200, 900 men inter-
ested in brass bands, either as players or
makers of instruments. There are
80, 900 brass bands in this country at
the present time, and their number is
rapidly increasingly. Y. Sun.
-Eighty-five persons climbed Mount
Blanc last year. Ten of these were
Americans. They found plenty of
room at the top. There is always
plenty of room where the mass of man
kind does not care to go.-Boston Post.
The average mans opinion of hu.
mainly is not tlattering. In his heart
of hearts he is aware that he is himself
a remarkably poor lot, and yet he con-
siders himself, on the whole, a little
better than anybody else.-M Y. Times.
The people of the United States pay
more for Brazilian coffee than the value
of all the merchandise exported to the
whole of South America. The coffee
costs $780, 600. 600. The exports are a
little less than S2S, 900, 900. Chicago
Times.
"A St. John IN. b. liquor dealer
who has been amusing himself by
blowing horns and otherwise disturb.
ing the Salvation Army when they
pass his place, was rotten-egged re-
Gently by number of young men who
were DESTROYS of teaching him better
sense
Henry Thornton moved his sitting
room stove to the smoke-house last
April. The other day he cleaned it,
preparatory to putting itup again, and
found among the ashes live Goals that
must have been .smoldering for six
months. lie had burned hickory
wood in the stove.-N. Y. Herald.
A tramp who was jailed in Indiana
other day had three sears from bull
lets, two bruises from clubs, seven fresh
dog-bites anda black eye, and yet he
kicked vigorously about being put into
warm room where he would have
to eat and find perfect rest for
The next sixty days.-Detroit Free Press.
The King of Cambodia, according
o the correspondent of a Paris Jour.
lal, has three hundred wives, chosen
rom the handsomest women in the
whole country. The entire population
md territory belong to the King. All
he Cambodians are the Kings scar.
men" or slaves. and pay him rents.
The King himself belongs to the French
tcsident-General.
A Georgia paper publishes as truth
he story of a Marion County farmer
Who became satisfied that he had a
apeworm. SO he carefully baited a
title %tishhook, tied a short line to it,
mallowed the hook and tied the line to
is button-hole. Then he waited for q
lite. BY and by he thought he had
ne and yanked the line; the hook
in his throat and had to be dug
ut. He didn't catch the worm.
Murder, or plotting to murder, is
heinous crime the world over. If a
ian advises another or pays another
commit a murder it is as difficult for
i'm to escape punishment as it would
G did he commit the murder himself.
a man murders another and fees
country to escape punishment in
irrational laws contemplate his re-
Urn to the scene of the murder for
Chicago Inter Occan. ,
A San Diego citizen boughta ticket
II San Francisco and sat down on the d.
Ter until the boat should be ready tc ,
art. He became much interested in ,
&c work going on, the passengers hur. :
ing down, the gangplank pulled in, :
~ the lines cast off, and expressed ,
leasurc at the sight of the big steamer !,
she left the pier. Then he rcmem. :
'red he wasn't OF board. but his bag. !
age was. and his language was some. :
ing siocking.-Sm Francisco CArou. i.
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